Keyboardist and composer John Cody Carpenter, better known as Cody Carpenter, was born on May 7, 1984, in Los Angeles, California.
Cody Carpenter is a third generation musician. His father, John Carpenter, is a famous movie director and composer and his mother, Adrienne Barbeau, is a star of film, television and the Broadway stage. His grandfather, Howard Carpenter, was a founding member of the Nashville Strings.
Cody was given his first musical instrument around the age of three and has been performing and composing original music since then. Besides contributing music for two of his father’s movies, “Vampires” (1998) and “Ghosts of Mars” (2001), Cody Carpenter composed and performed the full-length score for “Cigarette Burns” and “Pro-Life” in Showtime’s Masters of Horror (2005) movie series.
Cody co-wrote, co-produced, and performed on the acclaimed albums “Lost Themes” (2015) and “Lost Themes II” (2016) with his father and Daniel Davies. In 2016 and 2017, Cody toured North America and Europe with his father and a 6-piece band, performing music from both “Lost Themes” albums and his father’s films. In 2018, Cody (together with John Carpenter and Daniel Davies) helped to compose the music for the 2018 “Halloween” movie, starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
In 2019, Cody released the progressive rock and fusion album “Force of Nature”. The album begins with the high energy expansive track “Transcendence”. Cody plays all the instruments on this piece except the drums, contributed by Scott Seiver (Jason Mraz, Ed Sheeran). Guests include Jimmy Haslip and John Konesky (Tenacious D, John Carpenter).
The album “Control” came out in 2020. In 2021, Cody Carpenter presented the “Memories and Dreams”.
Carpenter’s sound is characterized by beautiful piano and dazzling synthesizer work rooted in classic progressive rock and jazz-rock fusion traditions.
“Balance Of Extremes” was released in January 2022.
(headline image: Cody Carpenter- Photo by Joakim Reimer)
Discography:
Cody Carpenter’s Interdependence (Blue Canoe Records, 2018)
Force of Nature (Blue Canoe Records, 2019)
Control (Blue Canoe Records, 2020)
Memories and Dreams (Blue Canoe Records, 2021)
Balance Of Extremes (Blue Canoe Records, 2022)